Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.